miracle

Definitions

Interesting fact:
The original coke contained cocaine and was labeled as a "cure all miracle drug". It became the popular soda when it carbonated water was accidentally added to it. The cocaine, however, was later removed when people began to become addicted.

MiracleA miracle play.

MiracleA story or legend abounding in miracles."When said was all this miracle ."

MiracleA wonder or wonderful thing."That miracle and queen of genus."

MiracleAn event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed."They considered not the miracle of the loaves."

v. tMiracleTo make wonderful.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

nmiracleA wonder, or a wonderful thing; something that excites admiration or astonishment.

nmiracleAn effect in nature not attributable to any of the recognized operations of nature nor to the act of man, but indicative of superhuman power, and serving as a sign or witness thereof; a wonderful work, manifesting a power superior to the ordinary forces of nature.

nmiracleA miraculous story; a legend.

nmiracleIn the middle ages, one of a class of spectacles or dramatic representations exhibiting the lives of the saints or other sacred subjects; a miracle-play, somewhat resembling that still held at Oberammergau in Bavaria. Compare myatery, 4.

miracleTo work wonders or miracles.

miracleTo make wonderful.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

nMiraclemir′a-kl anything wonderful: a prodigy: anything beyond human power, and away from the common action of the laws of nature: a supernatural event.—ns.Mir′acle-mong′er, one who pretends to work miracles; Mir′acle-play, a medieval form of drama founded on Old or New Testament history, or the legends of the saints

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Quotations

Helen Keller

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Henry Christopher Bailey

“In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”

Robert H. Schuller

“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”

Louise L. Hay

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”

In science:

Given its simplicity, its success is often referred as the Press & Schechter miracle.

Cosmological parameters from Galaxy Clusters: an Introduction

Unfortunately miracles are not allowed in science.

Cosmological parameters from Galaxy Clusters: an Introduction

Has there anything been gained as compared to the Wheeler – DeWitt framework? Any serious theoretical physicist will conﬁrm that it is almost a miracle that one can tame mathematical monsters such as the area, volume, Hamiltonian constraint or Master constraint operator at al l.

Loop Quantum Gravity: An Inside View

This phenomenon – the AdS/CFT duality – is a miracle occurring due to near-black-hole setting.

Quark-Gluon Plasma - New Frontiers

If all unstable modes had the same chances to grow, then the occurrence of detectable pulsation would have be regarded a miracle.

Driving mechanism in massive B-type pulsators

Bob Park was saved by a miracle. He’s not at all young.

Book review of SUPERSTITION by Robert Park

It is nothing short of a miracle that, in fact, many materials are relatively well described by the assumption that interactions do not play a principle role in the explicit physics.

Electrodynamics of correlated electron systems

But ﬁrst it will be useful to describe qualitatively two problems that seem to require simultaneous miracles if they are to be solved.

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Chapter IV: Energy from Breeder Reactors and from Fusion?

Perhaps they expect miracles from the next generation of experiments.

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Chapter IV: Energy from Breeder Reactors and from Fusion?

However among those who are not part of ITER and those who do not expect miracles, it seems that times are changing.

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Chapter IV: Energy from Breeder Reactors and from Fusion?

In more recent work, the functional form of these superpotential corrections was obtained (see below), and unfortunately, this miracle does not occur.

Primordial Fluctuations in String Cosmology

While human simulations need regular data input to run, in our world such input would constitute a “miracle”.